Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.

The White House Counsel’s office identified Rice as the person responsible for the unmasking after examining Rice’s document log requests. The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.

“Unmasking” is the process of identifying individuals whose communications were caught in the dragnet of intelligence gathering. While conducting investigations into terrorism and other related crimes, intelligence analysts incidentally capture conversations about parties not subject to the search warrant. The identities of individuals who are not under investigation are kept confidential, for legal and moral reasons.

That's a pretty big scoop by Cerno. Impressive. Especially if it leads back to Obama, as one would tend to assume will eventually prove to be the case. Rice is hardly an individual inclined to go rogue.

And guess who had authorization to unmask individuals who were 'incidentally' surveilled? Former CIA Director John Brennan, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Obama's National Security advisor Susan Rice. Also of note is the claim that New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman has been sitting on the Susan Rice story for at least two days:

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But will any of them do jail time for it? I was hoping with Trump we'd get to see these scumbag politicians and bureaucrats go to jail for the things they have done. Still want to see Hilliary and Bill in orange jumpsuits.

I bought Mile's first Mindset book a long time ago, then reviewed it to get my own focus going about 6 months ago, and had much respect for him. Since going over the full 60 Minutes interview my respect has increased at least two fold....Now this!

Journalism has never, never been about objectivity. Prof. Paul A. Rahe names Marchamont Needham the Father of journalism.

He was a scoundrel and a reprobate. Said anything, did anything, switched sides numerous times. The Father is what gives the character to his progeny and Marchamont Needham's character shows what journalism is all about.

All the newspapers in America have always been the operation of partisan parties. There is no such thing as an objective newspaper. Because at its essence, journalism has the power because it has the platform. It is about control and influence.

Democracy lives on demagoguery. It is demagoguery that is the essence of democracy. It was demagoguery of Ephialtes in Athens that gave democracy its birth. The modern form of demagoguery is journalism. Journalism is nothing more than demagoguery. Always has and always will. There is no ethics in journalism. There never will be. And that they teach "ethics in journalism" is a joke. You can't clean up a sewer and journalism is a sewer.

Is "unmasking" supposed to mean un-redacting the names of the surveilled in documents or is it intended to mentally "push" the implied action OFF the spies and onto the spied-upon? Seems an AWFUL lot like someone's 'talking point" because who EVER uses the word 'unmasked' in normal or political language?!

Durandel Almiras wrote:But will any of them do jail time for it? I was hoping with Trump we'd get to see these scumbag politicians and bureaucrats go to jail for the things they have done. Still want to see Hilliary and Bill in orange jumpsuits.

Yep. I am sick of elite shitlibs given a pass on felonies that certainly wouldn't be given if the roles were reversed. If this were a Republican scandal there would already be some of them doing time in the Gray Bar Hotel. Of course, I know the answer... Washington Generals.

I'm afraid it will be hard for Trump's justice department to arrest and or imprison these felons. The speed of our justice system will push everything into the 2018 election cycle and there are still too many chucks in power and voting. It would be nice if there were a way to move these traitors to a black site.

Eric Slate wrote:It is time for some of our crooked politicians to go to jail. It helps discourage the others.

This is where the problem is at. Rice went out and spread misinformation about Benghazi and it netted her a promotion. Of course she is going to do another favor for Zero when he calls. There is no down side and potential huge upside for her.

I thought the dust-up over Tillerson using an alternate email address while Exxon CEO was laughable. All of Obama's direct reports, and Obama himself used multiple alternate email addresses to avoid FOIA and the media never batted an eye.

Rush espouses the theory that people in all these departments just knew what to do because they were SJWs. I think that is partially true but based on the number of fake email accounts being used by Obama's lieutenants I think specific instructions were given out on some of these scandals.

Trump needs to nail these people to the wall now. If not, the next time Democrats gain power they will be even more blatant about their law breaking.

Great work, upon googling her name Cerno's Tw-tar feed is present along with 4chan and other beacons of truth, Cerno again wiped the floor with the left.

2017 is certainly the era or perhaps year where what was hidden is coming to light, Rice had NO business or the capacity being anywhere near national security adviser roles, she is at fault for Benghazi like little Satan HRC.

I don't know if I can stand this much poetic justice. Their whole "Trump is a Russian mole" narrative grew out of their spying, because of the way they hinted to their media and NeverTrump allies that they were getting the goods on Trump. Like the story they planted in Salon for Hillary to tweet, that said "computer experts" knew things about Trump's communications with the Russians that couldn't have been known without inside access. I said that was fishy at the time, but I thought it was just a typical lying hit piece. Now I see what they were doing: hinting to their allies, "We can't say how we're getting the goods, but trust us, we have ways."

They must have assumed they would find something big (email from Trump to Putin promises to sell back Alaska at cost!) that would justify their crimes in the eyes of the people, or that they could keep it secret. But they did too much bragging and hinting about it, and now they got nothing and people are asking about it anyway. It's beautiful.

It was Susan Rice and Valerie Jarret, along with Hillary to a great extent, that were were actually running the Obama Regime while Barry was playing golf and smoking pole. The destruction of Libya and the subsequent Benghazi fiasco is a great example of their paramount control over US foreign policy. Barry might have signed off on the unmasking of Flynn. He might have had no idea it was happening. He wasn't calling any of the shots let alone coming up with any of these nefarious plots. Barry may be completely innocent.

The MSM won't be able to simply ignore the scandal, so instead it will be about this being a witch hunt to punish political opponents and Trump is turning the USA into a banana republic, which the dumb Dem voters will lap up, because if your dumb enough to by the "Russian Hacking" stuff then you are dumb enough to buy anything. Also, they won't see anything "wrong" with anything done to stop Trump. After all, he is obstructing their agenda, and therefore anything done to defeat him is by definition moral and of the good.

It will pretty much be like when people were talking about putting Hillary in prison because she broke multiple laws relating to safeguarding classified material. The press made it out to be about just wanting to lock her up for no reason other than political opposition.

So, near term, MSM minimizes and downplays story, mid-term it behaves as I said above, if that is, someone is actually indicted. Long term depends on how near and mid-term plays out.

Also, I think I saw this at Ace Of Spade's blog, and I agree with it. It is bad enough to be a subject of evil overlords, but it would be nice if they were competent evil overlords. But no, we get the keystone cops as our evil overlords, and what does that say about us?

22 Those evil women...sorceresses, Valerie Jarrett is probably next to trend. Weird she moved in with the Obama's and even weirder is this refusal of the left to accept they lost; their narratives all lost and American Pple said no more talk of the left and no more blaming Russia.

Incidentally it must have annoyed Vlad Putin whom was asked about Russia's non role in 11/2016, there was none.

Ron Winkleheimer wrote:Also, I think I saw this at Ace Of Spade's blog, and I agree with it. It is bad enough to be a subject of evil overlords, but it would be nice if they were competent evil overlords. But no, we get the keystone cops as our evil overlords, and what does that say about us?

That is a large part of the danger the left faces. They have actually managed to generate an organic desire for a true “strong man” leader. That won’t be trump, that leader will come after trump and the blocking of trump by the left and the cuckservatives will only increase the demand for a true strong man who will crush any who stand against him. When the left have finally push people far enough the true “strong man” will easily take office and promptly fire up the helicopters.

@38 I sincerely hope that Obama is the USA's last affirmative action head of state, and that those who own, work for and manage all legacy MSM, Refugee Resettlement Agencies, the $PLC, the ACLU, and every individual who ever worked for the EEOC all are forced to fly exclusively on airliners piloted entirely by affirmative action hires.

But the elites need the white educated SJW class to act as their administrators (even if they don’t realize they are puppets) and to put a “pretty” face on their agenda. If they lose the white educated SJW class then they are obviously just another Mao or Stalin.

@40 Grayman, exactly. The Left thinks they're just greasing the wheels that lead to them returning to power so they can resume robbing the "can-do's," pocketing most of the swag and buying off the rabble (can't-do's) with trinkets.

When this insanely long-in-the-tooth credit/asset mania finally ends and the illusions all fall from the herd-members' eyes, all signs point to (first) social unrest and (as a consequence) a rightist authoritarian dictatorship.

I'm half-heartedly watching the competence of the people Trump places in the Joint Chiefs. If enough of the politikrats are replaced by hard-chargers, I can imagine a future Congress actually begging a career Marine or Staff Officer to take the reins.

Just as people mistakenly believe central planning can "cure" the problems of cronyism & generations of regulatory rent-seeking (e.g., calls for Single Payer in medical services), when politics prove unable to manage the problems of politics, even politicians will abdicate in favor of political centralization.

Neither is a solution, but human history isn't a record of sequential, planned solutions to problems.

It's looking more and more like Obama left a bunch of his minions as stay-behind saboteurs. Which is why Trump needs to move fast, but stealthily. There's not much point in tossing a couple of low-level operatives in jail. The goal is to send Obama and his masters to a Federal prison for a good, long time.

Then follow up with a professionalization of the Civil Service. Go back to the Hatch Act (which restricted activities) at full strength.

I could be easily proved wrong, but I think political mass murder is the province of the World-Improving Left. Pinochet's helicopter solution is simply not up to the task of culling the sheer numbers of those who need to go, anyway.

My hypothesis is that Leftism and Rightism are a bit like the asset markets. Assets (and politics) spend a lot more time in bull markets (Utopian leftism) because humans spend more time in a rising, optimistic social mood than in a falling, negative social mood.

Bear markets (Rightist political periods) are shorter, but also more sudden in effect (faster-moving, with a greater slope.) This means I expect full-out Rightist politics to occur during total SHTF conditions, conditions I think will do a marvelous job of culling the useless, chronically-inept and those who embraced the game of seeking to be more handicapped and more "diversitied."

Under significant hardship, I think Nature will cull the useless and volitionally handicapped without any significant assistance from politics.

My guess is that the breakup of the US into multiple nations/regions occurs under the strong man. The strong man would have to use the military within US boarders to completely subdue hard core leftist, and the use of the military within the US probably triggers both sides of the spectrum to shatter at that point.The military deployed within the US for political use is the sign post I would expect to see as the herald for the ugly part of the coming phase change.

On a related note, based on the recent debt analysis we aren't getting past 2025 without a bond market implosion and everything that implies. It looks like we have 3 to 8 years before phase change really kicks off.

Just caught a couple of seconds of Fox News, current lefty talking point is that US was doing lawful surveillance of foreign nationals and if Trump people were caught up in that then they should release the tapes and let everyone make up their minds.

W. Lindsay Wheeler wrote:Journalism has never, never been about objectivity. Prof. Paul A. Rahe names Marchamont Needham the Father of journalism.

He was a scoundrel and a reprobate. Said anything, did anything, switched sides numerous times. The Father is what gives the character to his progeny and Marchamont Needham's character shows what journalism is all about.

All the newspapers in America have always been the operation of partisan parties. There is no such thing as an objective newspaper. Because at its essence, journalism has the power because it has the platform. It is about control and influence.

Democracy lives on demagoguery. It is demagoguery that is the essence of democracy. It was demagoguery of Ephialtes in Athens that gave democracy its birth. The modern form of demagoguery is journalism. Journalism is nothing more than demagoguery. Always has and always will. There is no ethics in journalism. There never will be. And that they teach "ethics in journalism" is a joke. You can't clean up a sewer and journalism is a sewer.

And the newspapers would admit their political affiliations, often in the name. Now the lie is their claim of objectivity.

So long term spin will be that rogue underlings did things that Obama did not know about and would not of approved of if he did. His changing the rules to allow the dissemination of the unmaksed documents to all 16 of the US's spy agencies will be studiously ignored.

16 spy agencies. Sounds like an opportunity to cut government waste right there.

If Trump had any real dirty he would have been exposed already, the establishment has done anything and everything they can to find dirt on him and have had to run with "grab em by the pussy"..... Thats the best they have when the left had more or less the full power of the security state available to dig into his past.

If you read between the lines, it appears that trump is working to a build an alliance with the NSA to counter the CIA. From my perspective it looks like he may be looking to hang major players of the CIA out to dry and Obama's team by association. He needs the NSA to cover his back so has to play nice with them, so the CIA doesn't back stab him, literally or figuratively.

The recent wiki leaks stuff is a big fat juicy gift for trump as it it an easily understandable bullet point for the general public to understand.... The CIA is using tools to make their hacks look like the Russians and everyone else. Suddenly every hacking claim is assumed to be the CIA, guilt by association.

The key is it needs to an easy soundbite that the average joe can understand and this recent wiki leak fits the bill... time will tell.

Trump isn't alt-right, he is a liberal NYC business man. He supported gay marriage 20 years before Obama and Hillary said they did.

I support Trump. I voted for Trump. But I think we need to be honest about what we can expect from him.

Enforce the immigration laws, reform the tax code, improve the business climate, bring jobs back the the US, keep us out of useless foreign adventures. If he manages any two of those things, I will be happy.

I don't think he is going to want his agenda marred by massive rioting unless there is something in it for him that he needs. On the other hand, I don't see him being unwilling to threaten the guilty with jail time (or at least prosecution) if they don't stop trying to screw him over.

I always assume so. The NSA really doesn't have to hack that much. Their getting all the data delivered to them by the ISPs'. Their problems are cryptography and doing useful things with all the data they have.

I'm actually rather surprised that the US is able to listen in to the Russian Ambassador's phone calls. Apparently VPN is not secure against the US government. I remember back in the day when PGP was a thing there was speculation that the NSA had cracked it. How would you know?

It was interesting how Truecrypt was suddenly abandoned.... There was clearly something behind the scenes there, because the guys maintaining truecrypt were suddenly telling everyone to use microsoft...WTF????

Given just the known degree of intercept the NSA/CIA/etc have you have to assume they are capable of Man-In-The-Middle attacks on virtually any communication occurring in the west.With a Man-In-The-Middle attack, encryption is worthless, they don't have to decode anything as the encryption keys were passed through their hands.I'd still assume that it is non-trivial for them to actually decrypt strongly encrypted information that was NOT transmitted digitally, such as an encyrpted file on a flash drive transferred by hand to the receiving party.A one time pad could still be effective on a compromised line but has limited uses.

Given just the known degree of intercept the NSA/CIA/etc have you have to assume they are capable of Man-In-The-Middle attacks on virtually any communication occurring in the west.

Which is something the Russians have to know, meaning that the Russian Ambassador isn't going to be saying anything he doesn't want to be heard by the US government on a telephone. So what's the point of surveilling him in that manner?

Susan Rice? The stooge that came out saying Benghazi was caused by video protests. Hmm..maybe she is the "negotiated" stooge to take the fall in which investigations by Congress/FBI/Senate goes no further. Here take your head and go away, no more investigating into Obama's Admin activities.

If they did this to Trump before and during GOP primary it is guaranteed they did it to Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and others.

Susan Rice is Obama's reliable, proven fall-girl. The next shoe to drop should be the revelation that these Trump people were not just incidentally swept up like Marlins in the tuna net. They were the marks. If that happens, it's going to be bigger than Watergate.

As in, most of the government officials they should write about but don't should have criminal records, and most of the staff writers and "reporters" should have them as well (treason,obstruction, harassment, and more misplaced ideals than the average middle-schooler has misplaced commas).

From Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel

"The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations -- primarily between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials. One U.S. official familiar with the reports said they contained valuable political information on the Trump transition such as whom the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration."

Looks like Obama and the "resistance" were fishing for information from which to sabotage the Trump admin after he took office. Anyone who thinks this info collection was "incidental" has not been paying attention.